Syria's roads are unlikely to accomodate traffic increases projected to the year 2000 without significant modifications. The current road system is a mixture of deficiency and overdevelopment. Notable portions of both paved and unpaved rural roads are of a quality either too high or too low for their current traffic, and road conditions are deteriorating on 83% and 95.5% of these roads respectively. Based on the least-cost alternative system of investment evaluation, the study concludes that the proposed highway betterment program will yield high economic benefits and that a marginal cost pricing policy for passenger transport would substantially reduce total system costs by 2000. Also provided are a list of investment priorities under the 1981-85 development plan, additional priorities for the period 1986-2000, and an estimate of income from road user charges.


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    Title :

    Syrian Arab Republic Comprehensive Transport Study. Volume IV: Roads and Road Transport


    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    345 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English